This is Oulu Bar & EcoLounge in Williamsburg, home to Brooklyn’s first living wall installation. The 2,500 sf building was designed by Evangeline Dennie and it’s currently seeking LEED Gold certification. You’ll find a few different photos below, including a before shot, for your viewing pleasure.

What do you think? The green wall makes quite the design statement, doesn’t it? It’s tough to deny the modern appeal of vertical greenery, I say.

Oulu has all the green features one would expect of a project going for LEED certification, including the following: sheetrock made of post-industrial recycled material, biodegradable ceramic tiles, water-based grout sealers, natural Mica panels, FSC-certified woods, low-VOC paints with milk-based pigment, and a garage door for natural ventilation and light. The wood paneling on the walls (as shown below), or "peeling walls," captures and carries the natural feel of the living wall into the interior. Absolutely incredible.

100% agree with you Phillip. I work in an older building with a westerly wall that gets hit hard by the sun in the afternoon. I think a green wall would look great, and with the increased R value, as you say, it could help with the efficiency and comfort of the building.

Cool link to Patrick Blanc. Lots of excellent examples on his website.

100% agree with you Phillip. I work in an older building with a westerly wall that gets hit hard by the sun in the afternoon. I think a green wall would look great, and with the increased R value, as you say, it could help with the efficiency and comfort of the building.

Cool link to Patrick Blanc. Lots of excellent examples on his website.